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dejla both posted about this bit of stupidity earlier, and then a commenter over at Dejla's pointed out this in response. Most excellent.

And stealing from my own comment: So Bill Gates wouldn't have tinkered in his garage if he'd been forced to watch a female Starbuck? Is that about right?

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Wow... I think I need to take some time off from the internet, because it seems like everyone is intent on pissing me off lately. First I read an article that says Real Women wouldn't be attracted to 'skinny, pretty, girlish pin-ups' like Johnny Depp and David Tennant (two of my favorite actors) unless they're on hormone-altering drugs (so I'm not a Real Woman, apparently), and now this POS about my favorite genre! It makes me want to scream.

So, he's basically saying that when men wrote it it was about the science fiction and when women wrote it it was all emotional dreck and idealized men? Has he ever read any of this so-called superior male sci fi where the men were all super-intelligent muscular hunks and the women were big-chested and submissive? No, no idealization there. It's all about the science with male writers *rolls eyes* Wonder if he ever even noticed that a number of award winning sf writers from that era were women?

I suddenly appreciate my Dad more. He may occasionally have some notions about women that make me want to smack him upside the head, but he never once saw anything odd about his daughter enjoying science fiction. Clearly, not all men think it's a man's domain.

And maybe it's another sign that I'm not a Real Woman that I prefer my science fiction to have science and aliens and strange new worlds rather than romantic entanglements.

Oooo! You read that story too? Is The Pill Giving Geeks An Unfair Chance? (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/family-and-relationships/is-the-pill-giving-geeks-an-unfair-chance/article1317488/) About Women who are on the birth-control pill may be more likely to pick provider types over aggressive, masculine specimens – a course that could potentially affect the health of their children, according to a controversial new paper from the University of Sheffield.

And it's based on tracking the tips of 18 strippers through two menstrual periods. That's how you know it's GOOD science.

I had to call a friend to bitch about that piece of news.

The article I read was an entertainment article that tried to pass itself off as 'news', despite being very clearly an opinion. It was by a woman that was going on at length about how Daniel Craig is a Real Man and any woman who thinks otherwise is either on the Pill, teenagers, or not a Real Woman, because Real Woman only like muscular men, as proven by science *rolls eyes* Anyone who likes 'weedy, girlish pin-ups' must therefore have something wrong with them. I happen to like most of those 'weedy, girlish' men she mentioned.

I wasn't sure what 'science' she was referring to, but I figured it had to be dodgy. Thanks for this link; this is probably what she was referring too, and it's even less scientific than I had expected. 18 strippers over two months? Really? I only have a Bachelor's degree in biology, but even I know that that isn't how you'd run a complex study like this! That wasn't science; that was a bunch of losers trying to justify spending so much time around strippers.

*snorts* Though this article does make me want to take the Pill now; apparently it would be effective in fending off the muscle-bound think-they're-God's-gift-to-women jerks who think I'm an easy and desperate target...